Salvador DALÍ, Lluis MONTANYA et Sebastia GAS... Lot n° 134

Manifest Groc. Barcelona, March 1928. Poster printed on yellow paper (56 x 39 cm). Famous poster printed in Catalan showing the Manifest Groc, also known as the Yellow Manifesto. Salvador Dalí, with the collaboration of the art critics Lluis Montanya and Sebastia Gasch, drew up this manifesto, which violently attacked bourgeois "noucentrist" Catalan culture, a prelude to the famous conference of 22 March 1930 at the Ateneu in Barcelona, where Dalí set out, in a provocative tone that caused a scandal, the theoretical principles of his surrealist aesthetic, in opposition to intellectual conformism. With an avant-garde typography, the Manisfest Groc, after having reviewed and descended the dogmas of the pastist bourgeois culture, claims to be the work of the great artists of the time: Picasso, Gris, Ozenfant, Chirico, Miró, Lipchitz, Brancusi, Arp, Le Corbusier, Reverdy, Tzara, Eluard, Aragon, Desnos, Cocteau, Garcia Lorca, Strawinsky, Breton, etc.. Very rare